Dr. Sheila Flanagan

Dr. Sheila Flanagan is an affiliated lecturer with the Department of Psychology and has been a Research Associate with the Centre for Neuroscience in Education since 2012. She is currently working for the Botnar project, having previously worked upon the BabyRhythm project and the Educational Neuroscience & Developmental Dyslexia project.

Sheila is a Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences and Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College. 

Sheila completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. In her thesis she investigated timbre perception in reverberant spaces with two distinct types of acoustic radiator: the distributed mode loudspeaker and a cone loudspeaker. Sheila has an MSc. in Music Technology from the University of York, and attributes her fascination with psychoacoustics to her time working as a senior electronics engineer.

They are a member of the British Society of Audiology, The British Psychological Society, an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a former fellow of the Daphne Jackson Trust.